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A 6 page paper which examines Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper as it relates to hysteria. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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hands of society and more directly, the hands of men. It is a story that is inspired by Gilmans own experiences with mental strain at a time when the world
of medicine believed that everything a woman suffered from was connected to her gender and her reproductive organs. The medical community often termed womens illnesses as hysteria, thereby ignoring any
other possibility other than reproductive natures as it related to illness. The following paper examines hysteria as it relates to Gilmans story. Yellow Wallpaper and Hysteria
As mentioned, in Gilmans time, or the time of the story which was the end of the 19th century during the Victorian Era, women were
considered to be incredibly different than men, and it was men who ran the medical world. Women were seen as wives and mothers and were oppressed and confined, allowed to
do nothing except house and family duties. It was believed that women should not be intellectual or strain themselves because they were the weak sex and thus prone to conditions
associated with their sex alone. One author notes, in relationship to how the medical community saw women and the notion of hysteria, the following: "The idea of the Wondering Womb
developed during this time, as madness was associated with menstruation, pregnancy, and the menopause. The womb itself was deemed to wander throughout the body, acting as an enormous sponge which
sucked the life-energy or intellect from vulnerable women? (Ussher 74). Thus, women became synonymous with madness, as they were deemed to be emotional and unstable" (Frick).
As such, if a woman of this time period were to get incredibly angry, have an emotional outburst of some kind "(due to discontentment or repression)"
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